Abstract: Introduction – Concepts of Emotions in Modern Philosophy and Psychology – The Thing Called Emotion – Describing the Forms of Emotional Colouring that Pervade Everyday Life – The Mind's Bermuda Triangle: Philosophy of Emotions and Empirical Science – Emotions in Plato and Aristotle – Stoicism and Epicureanism – Emotions in Medieval Thought – A Sentimentalist's Defense of Contempt, Shame, and Disdain – Emotions in Heidegger and Sartre – Reinstating the Passions: Arguments from the History of Psychopathology – Emotional Choice and Rational Choice – Why Be Emotional? – Emotions and Motivation: Reconsidering Neo-Jamesian Accounts – Emotion, Motivation, and Action: The Case of Fear – The Phenomenology of Mood and the Meaning of Life – Saying It – Epistemic Emotions – Intellectual and Other Nonstandard Emotions – A Plea for Ambivalence – Emotion, Self-/Other-Awareness, and Autism: A Developmental Perspective – Emotions and Values – An Ethics of Emotion? – The Moral Emotions – Learning Emotions and Ethics – Emotions and the Canons of Evaluation – Demystifying Sensibilities: Sentimental Values and the Instability of Affect – Expression in the Arts – Affects in Appreciation – Emotional Responses to Music: What Are They? How Do They Work? And Are They Relevant to Aesthetic Appreciation? – Emotions, Art, and Immorality

Keywords: action, aesthetic, aesthetics, argument, Aristotle, choice, concept, emotion, empirical, ethics, expression, forms, life, meaning of life, meaning, mood, morality, motivation, music, Other, passion, phenomenology, philosophy, Plato, practical reason, rational, reason, self, value, epistemic, evaluation, learning, the meaning of life, thought